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Attempted murder
trial ordered

A NORTH Vancouver man has been ordered to stand trial on an
attempted murder charge after a Feb. 13 preliminary hearing in
North Vancouver provincial court.

Carl Christopher Joseph, 30, was charged in connection with a
Dec. 29 incident in North Vancouver in which 2 23-year-old North
Vancouver man suffered several knife wounds.

Joseph is scheduled to appear Feb. 28 in Vancouver county court
to set a trial date on the charge.

Skier rescued
from Grouse

SEARCH AND rescue teams located and evacuated a 50-year-old
skier who went missing Monday on Grouse Mountain.

The man was reported missing at about 3 p.m. Monday.

According to North Shore Rescue Team searchmaster Ron
Royston, Lions Bay and Coquitlam search and rescue teams
assisted Grouse staff and the local search team during the hunt for
the missing man.

The man, who had skied out of bounds, was located and lifted to
safety by helicopter Tuesday morning.

Royston’s preliminary report to press time Tuesday indicated
that the skier was in good shape. More than 20 centimetres of snow
fell over a 12-hour period during the search.

Finance Minister
to speak in NV

FEDERAL FINANCE Minister
Michael Wilson will be the
guest speaker at a joint North
Vancouver and West Vancouver
Chamber of Commerce
breakfast meeting set for 7:30
a.m., Thursday, March 1 at
Cheers restaurant in North
Vancouver.

For those who

Wilson will appear locally a
little over a week after the Feb.
21° «unveiling of the federal
budget. Associate Minister of
Defence and Capilano-Howe
Sound MP Mary Collins and
North Vancouver MP Chuck

o en § Cook have also been invited to
FEDERAL nce Minister attend the meeting.

Michael Wilson ...to speak at
Chamber of Commerce
meeting.

For more information call the
North Vancouver Chamber of
Commerce at 987-4488.

Tree branches
knock out power

APPROXIMATELY 1,000 homes in the Upper British Properties
area were forced to go without power for sbout three hours early
Tuesday niorning after heavy wet snow brought trees and branches
down on to power lines.

B.C. Hydro senior communications coordinator Verne Prior said
the power outage lasted from 1:03 a.m. to 4:10 a.m. and was cen-
tred in the area between the Capilano Golf and Country Club and
Capilano Canyon Park.

Meanwhile, 1,700 North Vancouver Hydro customers Jost their
power for about one hour Monday afternoon when a tree branch
snapped a power line on east 29th Street.

The power outage, which lasted from 2:49 p.m. to 3:47 p.m.,
was centred in the area bounded by Balmoral Road to the north,
Fourth Street to the south, Westhill Drive to the east and St. An-

drews Street to the west.

NV man fined
for assault

A 30-YEAR-OLD North Vancouver man was fined $1,200 recently
in North Vancouver provincial court after he pleaded guilty to a
charge of assault causing bodily harm.

Donald Francis Bell pleaded guilty Feb. 7 to the charge, which
was laid in connection with a Feb. 24, 1989 incident in which 2 man
was assaulted and injured.

Judge J.L. McCarthy also placed Beli on probation for two years
and ordered him to have no contact with the victim,

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